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I have a situation at work where I want to my laptop exact copy as my work PC. I wanted to know if there is a software or a utiility I can use to make my laptop exactly identical as my PC, installing softwares with the configurations and registry settings.

I don't think that Ghost will work, because you are trying to restore to dissimilar hardware. Correct me if I'm wrong opnj (and I hope I am, because this is just one more reason for me to love Norton Ghost), but I though Ghost couldn't extract and recreate the HAL for dissimilar restore.

Based on my understanding of that article, if you are going from an AMD to Intel machine (or vice versa), or if you have a different interface bus (IDE vs SCSI vs SATA) on the two machines, you will have a problem. The drivers and interface necessary for these core components are installed at install time, and cannot be modified after install from within Windows.

There is a possibility, I have found it to work most of the time. There are also ways to use acronis and a few others for true bare metal restore, but it will cost alot more. I bleive more info on the machines is needed from the asker.

Because of the difference between the AMD and Intel architectures, I don't believe it is possible to transfer wholesale the image of your source computer to your laptop. My recommendation is to look into software like PC Mover, that will move your settings and programs over, but leave the core OS intact and untouched.

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